(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition hosted by Saudi Arabia elected former Prime Minister Riad Hijab as a coordinator of a body that is expected to lead future peace talks, Reuters  said on Thursday. Hijab, who defected from Syrian President Bashar al Assad's government in...

The United States has delivered a fresh supply of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters ahead of an expected stiff battle with Islamic State as they push toward the Syrian town of al-Shadadi, a key logistics hub for the group, U.S. officials tell Reuters. The munitions were shipped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on northern Aleppo province have killed 12 people, including a family of 7 members, local activists and monitoring said Thursday. Russia's warplanes have conducted 4 raids on Azaz, a border town with Turkey, leaving dead a family of 2 children, 4 women and...

Mohammed, 22, has lived in Turkey for four years since fleeing Syria, just months after the civil war erupted that has torn his homeland apart. But unlike hundreds of thousands of others who this year crossed the Aegean Sea in search of better lives in Europe, he has no plans to leave. "I...

Dutch police on Wednesday fired warning shots in an effort to disperse a crowd, as a protest against plans to house asylum-seekers in a small town turned into a riot. Police in Geldermalsen, near Utrecht, said via their official Twitter account they had "so far made numerous...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to push efforts to end the conflict in Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday. While in New York, Kerry will also host a meeting of the International Syria Support...

Reporting by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians refugees  in Narlija town near Antalya resort southern Turkey have complained the mistreatment of an association funded by the U.N. Fadi Al Ghazo, a Syrian refugee told Zaman Al Wasl that most Turkish...

An Iranian news agency said on Wednesday the commander of foreign operations for Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards had met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but his spokesman flatly denied the report. Fars news agency said General Qassem Soleimani, who visited Moscow in July to aid...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says it's unacceptable that a solution to the Syrian civil war depends on the fate of one man – President Bashar Assad. He told a news conference Wednesday that the United Nations is pressing for a nationwide cease-fire and the start of negotiations on a political...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Justice House in southern Daraa province has appointed Sheikh Ismat al-Absi as a head for the powerful body that manage Shariah affairs and conflict resolution among rebels. On Tuesday, unknown assailants have killed Shiekh Osama al-Yateem, head of the Justice House with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took ground from Isis in the Syrian desert near the Iraqi border on Tuesday, killing 15 militants, field sources told Zaman al Wasl. Martyr Ahmed al-Abdo Brigade and Osoud al-Sharqiya Brigade have captured number of Isis checkpoints near the...

Syrian regime troops and allied militia pushed rebel fighters back on Wednesday from a hilltop overlooking a strategic highway in President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, state media said. Citing a military source, state news agency SANA said army units and pro-government militia “took...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Islamist factions have recaptured territory from regime army and allied militia in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists said Tuesday. The recent gain came after Rebels had formed a new military operations room in the embattled suburbs included Islam Army, Ajnad al-Sham,...

The United States and Russia agreed Tuesday to push ahead with Syrian peace talks in New York this week, after intense talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Vladimir Putin. After a three-hour meeting in Moscow between Putin and Kerry, Russia and the...

Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday its planes had carried out air strikes to support four rebel groups in Syria, saying it was working to try to unite the efforts of the Free Syrian Army and government troops against Islamic State. The General Staff of the Russian army...

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states are discussing sending special forces to Syria as part of U.S.-led efforts to fight Islamic State, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday. "There are discussions, countries that are currently part of the coalition (like) Saudi...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 people have been killed in Syrian and Russian air strikes on rebel-held areas  in northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo , a monitor said Tuesday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 20 people, including 5 women, have been killed in...

 In a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Syrians from Raqqa have been coming to harvest cannabis for almost a decade. Now, Raqqa is under Islamic State control and the border crossing is more difficult than ever. One woman recently risked her life for work in Lebanon. Like the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he wanted to use a visit to Moscow on Tuesday to make "real progress" in narrowing differences with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over how to end the conflict in Syria. Kerry is seeking to prepare the ground for a third round of talks of...

Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad in western Syria denied receiving any support from the Russia n air force, saying that on the contrary it continued to bomb them and rejecting comments by a top Russian general on Monday. A separate, recently...